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To: blam
Even Shih-Tzu's ??????
4 posted on 11/21/2002 4:36:49 PM PST by cmsgop
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To: cmsgop
Even Shih-Tzu's ??????

I wonder whether there were any such from among the 564 dogs studied. I remember reading somewhere the claim that dogs are likely descended from jackals and coyotes at least as much as from wolves, but the dog people like the wolf idea better.

As for the idea that prehistoric man domesticated wolves, this seems a nasty and unlikely business. More likely, the first dogs were a few extremely rare wild canines who lacked the usual animal fight or flight instinct, and these sought out people when hungary. Increasingly tame dogs would then have evolved, as the friendliest dogs, being best at begging food scraps off of people, survived and prospered. Only when prehistoric human camps already had good safe dogs in tow would humans them had been motivated to select for characteristics of specific breeds. Nobody wants to breed animals which are liable to attack them.

10 posted on 11/21/2002 4:52:52 PM PST by Steve Eisenberg
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To: cmsgop
My late adorable little Shih-Tzu Taffy was descended from a powder puff (a powder puff with sharp little teeth).
14 posted on 11/21/2002 6:16:23 PM PST by ladylib
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To: cmsgop
Nah, shitzu's are descended from squirrels.
18 posted on 11/21/2002 6:25:51 PM PST by OldCorps
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To: cmsgop
SHIH-TZU, SHIH-TZU


23 posted on 11/21/2002 6:44:43 PM PST by rockfish59
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(Putting on flame proof suit)
A veterinarian once told me with a smile:
"If it flies when you kick it, then it's a cat."

29 posted on 11/21/2002 7:09:21 PM PST by e_engineer
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To: cmsgop
I had the exact same thought about Shih-Tzus as my little 9 month old Shih-Tzu, Gretl, is here in the room chasing her tail and barking at it.
48 posted on 11/21/2002 8:12:16 PM PST by Koblenz
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